Parsons Behle & Latimer

Mike Welker is a civil trial attorney with decades of experience handling cases in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. He works on a contingency fee basis for personal injury and wrongful death claimants with claims arising from semi-truck collisions, car collisions, hazardous conditions on commercial property and dog attacks. He also has an abundance of experience handling medical, hospital and nursing home negligence cases on a contingency fee basis. He has handled business and commercial tort, misconduct, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty cases for both plaintiffs and defendants. Mike never shies away from a fight and puts his heart and soul into obtaining justice for his clients.

Capabilities

Biography

Mike Welker is a shareholder at Parsons Behle & Latimer, based in the firm’s St. George, Utah, office. A civil litigator who is licensed in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, Mike handles cases in both state and federal courts. He has briefed and argued cases before the Utah Supreme Court and the Nevada Supreme Court.

Mike began his legal career in Phoenix in 1994 and then, in late 1995, relocated to beautiful St. George. Before joining Parsons Behle & Latimer, Mike served as a partner in one of St. George’s oldest and most accomplished law firms for 28 years and also founded a Las Vegas branch office that quickly established a strong reputation for trial advocacy.

Mike’s career includes many notable results for his clients. For example, in 2015 he obtained a $5 million settlement for a man severely injured in a semi-truck collision in Utah; in 2012 he obtained a $1.7 million settlement for a child who was born prematurely following a semi-truck collision in Nevada; and he has obtained many other recoveries over $1 million for various personal injury and wrongful death clients via trial and mediation. In 2010, in a Nevada complex commercial matter, Mike successfully defended a mortgage business owner over allegations of fraud and breach of fiduciary duty in hundreds of real estate transactions totaling tens of millions of dollars.

Recognized for his civil litigation skills, Mike has been asked by many other attorneys to co-counsel personal injury and medical malpractice cases in multiple jurisdictions. He has presented at multiple CLE courses on the subjects of personal injury and civil litigation. Mike has been recognized as a top 100 civil litigator in Nevada by the American Society of Legal Advocates. His personal injury practice was voted “Best of Southern Utah” by the local populace four years in a row.

Accomplishments

Academic

Arizona State University, J.D., cum laude, 1994

(Order of the Coif; ranked 9^th in class of 192)

Willard H. Pedrick Scholar

Associate Editor, Arizona State Law Journal, 1992-1994

Honors Legal Method and Writing

3L Writing Instructor, Legal Method and Writing

Judicial Clerk, Honorable Philip E. Toci, Arizona Court of Appeals, 1994-1995

Arizona State University, B.S., magna cum laude, 1991

Associations

Professional

Utah State Bar

Utah Association for Justice

State Bar of Nevada

State Bar of Arizona

Past Board member, Southern Utah Bar Association

Distinguished Service Award, 2008, Southern Utah Bar Association

Community

Rotary Club of St. George, Utah

(Rotarian of the Year 2006-2007)

Chairman of the Board, Dixie High Football Boosters, Inc.

Former Board of Directors, DASIA (Dixie-Arizona Strip Interpretive Association)

Former Production and Facilities Director, Dixie Rotary Bowl

Insights

Parsons Behle & Latimer Continues Pattern of Strategic Growth with New Office in St. George, Utah

Credentials

Licensed

Arizona

Utah

U.S. Dist. Court, Dist. of Utah

Nevada

U.S. Dist. Court, Dist. of Nevada

Education

Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law